9th February 2007
I’ve had some friends over visiting for the last few days, and so have been out for a couple of meals. At the start of these, as is the case in most restaurants, we were presented with bread and butter. These two things form part of almost every traditional diet, but just when did we discover them? Actually, it was between 5000 and 12000 years ago that man stopped chasing all his food and began herding and farming instead.
Climactic changes at the end of the Ice Age encouraged more edible plants such as wheat to grow. read more